Plackers Orthopick® Flossers

I got the Fremouth-branded floss picks first and thought they were pretty good for what I needed for my braces. However, I’m new to this braces journey and was looking into different brands to see if it could get even better. During one of my ortho appointments, my dentist recommended I try Plackers. I told her I’d try it out and I ordered them as soon as I ran out of the Fremouth brand. Well… let me just say that Plackers don’t have anything on Fremouth. First of all, as you can tell by the photos, the bottom plastic part of where the floss connects to the tool is thicker than the Fremouth (I’m referring to where you are actually able to slide this tool in between your teeth and braces to floss). And this is a big deal because if you have braces, you know that’s not a big gap and it’s the whole point of buying special picks that were made to be small enough to fit into this gap… I had to push and pull uncomfortably most of the time to get the tool in between the braces and my teeth, vs with Fremouth, I never had that issue. This issue is enough for me to return the item, because why should I strain to try and get a “braces” flossing pick into my teeth to floss when there are easier options??? But that’s not all, I never realized how convenient it was that Fremouth’s pick is hard and thin and not bendable and can easily slide into the gap between my braces and teeth. The Plackers brand has the orange rubbery pick and it is not hard plastic!! It’s more of a stiff, bendy rubber that is a little too thick for it to go in between and it does a bad job of being able to pick anything out from your teeth. The hard plastic end next to the orange rubber pick is even worse, it does bend outward, which is kind of cool, but it is so thick that it can’t slide underneath your wire… *face palm* you can clearly see how thick the end of it is and so it’s not even a pick…. I don’t know what they think that was supposed to be for… so there’s a rubbery, bendy pick that does nothing for you and a harder plastic “pick” that is thick and dull and not functional as a pick. Overall, get the Fremouth brand and forget Plackers.